HARK BACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hark back mean? 

• HARK BACK (verb)
  The verb HARK BACK has 1 sense:

1. go back to something earlier

  Familiarity information: HARK BACK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARK BACK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go back to something earlier

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

come back; hark back; recall; return

Context example:

This harks back to a previous remark of his

Hypernyms (to "hark back" is one way to...):

denote; refer (have as a meaning)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hark back"):

go back; recur (return in thought or speech to something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

Had they gone and told Silver, all might have turned out differently; but they had their orders, I suppose, and decided to sit quietly where they were and hark back again to “Lillibullero.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And now, if you have quite finished, we will hark back to Kensington and see what the manager of Harding Brothers has to say on the matter.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I must hark back, however, and continue my narrative from where I dropped it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We will leave this question undecided and hark back to our morass again, for we have left a good deal unexplored.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)